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Helping Muslims See Christ in Christianity Helping Muslims See Christ in Christianity Understanding Islam in Light of the Bible by Joe Wyrostek Helping Muslims See Christ in Christianity © 2009 by Joe Wyrostek Published by Metro Praise, P.O. 34863, Chicago, IL 60634 www.metropraise.org 2 Dedicated to Jesus Christ and the work of the Gospel around the world. “May Your Kingdom come and Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”- Jesus 3 4 Table of Contents Introduction: Who Is Jesus - Liar, Lunatic, or Lord? 7 Section I: The History of Islam Chapter 1: The History of the Abrahamic Faith 11 Chapter 2: The History of the Israelite Nation and the Jewish Faith 17 Chapter 3: The History of the Christian Faith Until Mohamed 23 Chapter 4: The History of Mohamed and the Islamic Religion 31 Section II: The Islamic Religion Chapter 5: The Six Beliefs of Islam 43 Chapter 6: The Five Pillars of Islam 53 Chapter 7: The Religious Customs of Islam 61 Section III: Biblical Answers to Islam Chapter 8: Biblical Answers Intro 67 Chapter 9: The Bible vs. The Qur’an 69 Chapter 10: The Doctrine of the Trinity vs. Allah’s Singular Nature 83 Chapter 11: Jesus, God in the Flesh vs. Jesus the Prophet 99 Chapter 12: Salvation Through Jesus’ Death, Burial, and Resurrection vs. Islam’s Good Works 109 5 Section IV: Reaching Muslims In America Chapter 13: Why Islam is Growing So Fast in the West? 121 Chapter 14: How to Reach Muslims in America 129 Final Words: Will You Go For God? 143 6 Introduction Who Is Jesus - Liar, Lunatic, or Lord? 2 Corinthians 11:3-4, “3 But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent. 4 You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different kind of Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed.” Is Jesus Christ really only a prophet, as Muslims believe and teach? Or is He the unique Son of God, mankind’s only Savior and Mediator as Christians have taught for almost 2,000 years? This book was written to help you the reader discover the real Jesus of the Bible in light of what Muslims believe. Jesus said to his first disciples almost 2,000 years ago, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me” (John 10:6, NIV). Jesus declared Himself to be the only mediator between God and man. This statement only leaves today’s reader with three basic options on how to receive Jesus after reading these words; Jesus was a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. He could not have only been a prophet and make that claim. First, was Jesus a liar? Did He know He was not the only way to God, but rather chose to deceive His disciples and receive self-centered glory? According to both Muslims and Christians, Jesus wasn’t a liar, He was a holy man who spoke the words of God, and so Jesus cannot be a liar (Sura 2:136). Second, was Jesus a lunatic? Did Jesus suffer from mental illness and was filled with self-delusion? Of course not, Jesus was a wise man, even the Qur’an refers to Jesus (Iesa) as a messenger of God with “clear proofs and evidences” (Sura 2:87,136,253), therefore Jesus could not have been a lunatic. And thirdly, was Jesus declaring His Lordship? Did Jesus really come to earth to be the only way, the only truth, and the only way to God? This is the only real option left; Jesus was really God in the flesh, sent to be the mediator for mankind and He meant exactly what He said (John 1:1,14). 7 So why are their Muslims today and not only Christians? Because Muslims have been taught not to believe all that is written in the Gospels, especially the Gospel of John because it supports Jesus’ divinity more than any other book. Muslims have been taught to reject anything in the Bible that does not correspond to the Qur’an, and for that reason, this booklet has been written.1 This booklet has been written so that you will be able to learn (1) The History of Islam (2) What Islam Believes (3) The Biblical Answers to Islam (4) How to Reach Muslims with the Gospel Before you begin to read this booklet, please take some time now to pray and ask God to fill you with His wisdom and understanding so that you will be to comprehend all that is taught in this book. Then pray for compassion and love to fill your heart so that you can see the Islamic world as Jesus does, as a lost and hurting group of people that need to be saved. And lastly, prepare yourself for action; pray that God will begin to stir your heart so that you can reach the Muslims in America with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Review: 1. What is the central disagreement between Muslims and Christians about Jesus? 2. Could Jesus have been just a good man or a prophet? Explain your answer. 3. Pray and ask God to show you who the real Jesus Christ is. 1 Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Qur’an: Text, Translation, and Commentary (Elmhurst, New York: Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an Inc., 1934), 282-284. 8 Section I: The History of Islam This first section deals with the roots of Islam and how it compares to Biblical history and Christianity. 9 10 Chapter 1 The History of the Abrahamic Faith Sura 3:110, “… If only the People of the Book had faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors.” 1 Chronicles 29:18, “O LORD, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, keep this desire in the hearts of your people forever, and keep their hearts loyal to you.” Abraham is the central founding figure in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Therefore, along with Judaism and Christianity, Islam is considered an “Abrahamic Faith” because Muslim’s consider Abraham the father of the Arabic people, the prophets, and Mohamed.2 The largest attested amount of information found on Abraham comes from the Old Testament book of Genesis. Genesis teaches that Abraham was born Abram the son of Terah who lived in the city of Ur in the land of Mesopotamia during the 1700’s B.C. (Genesis 11:31). God visited Abram and told him that he was to leave his father’s house, move to a new land that He would show him, and become the father of a great nation (Genesis 12:1-2). During these visitations Abram’s name, which means, “exalted father” in Hebrew, was changed by God to Abraham, which means “father of a multitude” (Genesis 17:5). Abraham was obedient to God and left his family and homeland and moved to the land of Canaan and began to serve God and follow His commands. Abraham was taught by God to be circumcised, make sacrifices, and follow God’s moral commands. During this time Abraham became discouraged because God had promised to make him a great nation, but Sarah his wife could not bare children, so out of frustration he had a child with his wife’s servant named Hagar. Hagar gave birth to the Abraham’s first child named Ishmael. A few years later God came back to Abraham and told him that He wanted him to have a child with Sarah and that this child was to be called Isaac and he was going to bless 2 Frederick Mathewson Denny, An Introduction to Islam (New Jersey: Pearson Education, 2006), 11. 11 him and make him a great nation. Abraham, disbelieving he and Sarah could bring forth a child in their old age, asked God if would bless Ishmael instead and make him a great people and nation, but God did not relent and he promised that the child he would bless would come from Sarah and be named Isaac (Genesis 16-17). Eventually Abraham and Sarah had Isaac, the child of promise. Isaac’s birth was a miracle because Sarah was ninety years old and Abraham was a hundred years old when he was born. Genesis then records that as Isaac began to grow older Ishmael began to pick on him and cause Sarah trouble. Sarah then asked Abraham to cast out Hagar and her son Ishmael and let Isaac be Abraham’s only son in the family. Abraham reluctantly gave in to his wife’s wishes and put away Hagar and Ishmael, however God had mercy on Ishmael and made him a great nation (Genesis 21). According to the Bible Isaac’s decedents became the nation of Israel, God’s chosen people, and through them He founded the Jewish religion. Ishmael’s descendents became the Arabic speaking nations of the Near East and were worshippers of pagan gods, which eventually became Muslims after Mohamed’s visions in the seventh century A.D. (Genesis 25:12-23). How Islam Views Abrahamic History Though Islam and Christianity agree on much of the story of Abraham, the Qur’an disagrees with the Bible in a few very important ways. First, Islam teaches that all of the Biblical characters were Muslim like how Mohamed was and how Muslims are taught to live today.
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